SSSS Stands for???
Oct 21, 2004 | 8:28 am
#16
Moderator: Coupon Connection & S.P.A.M
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I won't bother posting some of my creative but extremely negative interpretations of SSSS. Suffice it to say, many of them encourage Admiral David Stone to do something biologically obscene to himself.
However, if you use one-way tickets and you want to avoid SSSS, get your FF# for the carrier whose metal you're on into the record prior to ticketing. That means if it's a codeshare, you need a FF# for the carrier operating the codeshare. Switch out FF#s after clearing "security", never before. Always make your own reservations when rerouted during irregular ops, never let your original carrier rebook you.
However, if you use one-way tickets and you want to avoid SSSS, get your FF# for the carrier whose metal you're on into the record prior to ticketing. That means if it's a codeshare, you need a FF# for the carrier operating the codeshare. Switch out FF#s after clearing "security", never before. Always make your own reservations when rerouted during irregular ops, never let your original carrier rebook you.
Oct 21, 2004 | 8:30 am
#17
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: FRA/FLL
Programs: AA, LH, others
Posts: 347
Originally Posted by DFWILE
Actually, the letters are printed upside down, in order to keep the traveler from understanding their meaning.
Just turn your boarding pass upside down and...uh...never mind
Just turn your boarding pass upside down and...uh...never mind
Oct 21, 2004 | 9:45 am
#18
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Exclusively OMNI/PR, for Reasons
Posts: 4,186
Originally Posted by pushback
For "Eye Catching" value, they could have picked any other letter. XXXX works well. Works even better when you overstrike it with OOOO or something like that.
Oct 21, 2004 | 9:52 am
#19
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: USA
Posts: 1,017
If only airline ticketing agents had color printers, they could give passengers a photographic hint of what's about to happen to female SSSSelectees:
SSSS pictorial representation
Moderator Comment: Per request, the link to the 'SSSS pictorial representation' has been removed due to questionable content.
SSSS pictorial representation
Moderator Comment: Per request, the link to the 'SSSS pictorial representation' has been removed due to questionable content.
Last edited by geckoflyer; Oct 22, 2004 at 9:41 am Reason: Removed Picture Link
Oct 21, 2004 | 9:31 pm
#26
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 1,673
Originally Posted by sowalsky
Systematic Secondary Security Search?
Oct 22, 2004 | 10:10 am
#29
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: USA
Posts: 1,017
Originally Posted by GradGirl
If only airline ticketing agents had color printers, they could give passengers a photographic hint of what's about to happen to female SSSSelectees:
SSSS pictorial representation
Moderator Comment: Per request, the link to the 'SSSS pictorial representation' has been removed due to questionable content.
SSSS pictorial representation
Moderator Comment: Per request, the link to the 'SSSS pictorial representation' has been removed due to questionable content.
Oct 22, 2004 | 11:20 am
#30
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 456
Originally Posted by GradGirl
Well, duh! Of course the content is questionable. What's even more questionable is the TSA's judgement in deciding to order screeners to touch womens' breasts. The latter is exactly the action depicted in the image that was de-linked. You see, TSA, FlyerTalk responds to community outrage, but screeners grab our breasts whether we're outraged or not.